Thailand Gender and Health Equity Assessment

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Thailand Gender and Health Equity Assessment

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The UNU-IIGH worked with five UN agencies that operate under a health mandate to document and analyze what has worked institutionally and programmatically to promote gender equality in health over the last 25 years.

This is a Gender and Health Assessment of Thailand, using available data and proxy data from WHO to measure gender equality. The authors used data and infographics to answer four key questions:

Why does gender matter for health in Thailand?
Do men and women in Thailand have equal access to determinants of health?
Do gender, location, education, and income affect the health status of people in Thailand?
Are gender, equity, and human rights reflected in the legal and institutional structures and capacity of Thailand?

Based on data, the authors concluded that forward-looking policies, if effectively implemented through suitable institutional mechanisms and adequate capacity, support the mainstreaming of gender, equity and human rights perspectives in health and enable change towards greater equity.

Download the infographic:

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/344697/GER-Thailand-eng.pdf